• Masterofballs@exploding-heads.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      Santa Cruz was my first board in like 1996 or 7. Right around the start of the golden age of skateboarding.

      It really helped me though hard times. When my parents divorced my skateboard was there for me. It’s a tool. It has no politics. No opinions. It’s there for you. If you study it carefully it will always carry you safely. No matter how fast or how slow you go.

      Skateboard culture is kinda toxic but I still support it. It will make your body stronger and give you something positive to do rather than drugs or alcohol. All though you can skate intoxicated too.

      I was never amazing but I could 360 flip and kick flip down a four stair. Drop in on a big half pipe but I never had money for skate parks so didn’t get great at ramps.

      I still go carve the local bowl in my area sometimes with my kids.

      • squashkin@exploding-heads.comM
        3·
        1 year ago

        skateboard culture is kinda toxic

        yeah too many antifa-ish types (me formerly kinda)

        lmao I’d like to see some conservative / independent culture in skating, some is there but we need like a company or group or crew to point to

        kind of off topic but would be cool for us to organize IRL, wolfballs skatepark with some IT room for coding… a kind of dream complex for us to combine our diverse shared interests LOL

        like exploding heads meets the berrics

        It really helped me through hard times

        I won’t claim to have had hard times in my life, besides emotionally I was just sad and angry as a kid and still am in some ways, and I could let out my emotions on the skateboard. I could be mad like “hockey temper” kerry getz and kind of beat myself up in a “productive” way that felt like “self-harm” but I could get new skate tricks down so it was kind of healthy. reminded me of those “extreme” pro wrestling where they would fall on thumb tacks and get bloody and beat up.

        Right now with skating I have been trying to figure out what to do, trying to find “less dangerous” things because I don’t crave getting hurt. so more flatground tricks maybe? Not gonna be throwing myself down handrails and big stairs… if I had access to a vert or mini ramp maybe I’d skate that more (limited skatepark options nearby but some people have private ones if I can meet up with old or new friends, or maybe I could build something).

        I think wearing a helmet is fine, like andy anderson does even on street stuff

        I like fancy lad’s team and tricks; their vids have some stuff I won’t endorse but otherwise they’re really creative and to me keep that spirit of keeping skating fun alive

        @Fisuxcel@exploding-heads.com

        • Masterofballs@exploding-heads.com
          4·
          1 year ago

          I’m in my mid thirties I just pump up and down on the bowl. My body would still let me jump down stairs I just have to much responsibility with kids to limp around with a rolled ankle or hurt back for 3 days. Thats 3 days my wife would have to carry the baby all by herself.

            • Masterofballs@exploding-heads.com
              1·
              1 year ago

              Got to stretch and do cardio a couple days a week. At our age if you sit at a desk every day you may have forgotten to use a muscle for four years easy . It’s not that the muscle is to old it just has grown weak from no use.

              Speaking of, my pull up bar broke six months ago. So I’m sure those muscles shrink. I need to buy it build another one.

          • squashkin@exploding-heads.comM
            2·
            1 year ago

            uncommon

            idk I would think it to be somewhat common

            rodney mullen likes math and physics… I see some crossover of the two

            there are different kinds of skaters analoguous to musical tasks, like punk or maybe more street skaters, to me flatground (like Rodney Mullen) reminds me of like classical music on a skateboard

  • squashkin@exploding-heads.comM
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    1 year ago

    been skating “forever” if you have any questions, same with masterofballs

    recently more just in to riding some smooth wheels than tricks but still do a little of that

    • Fisuxcel@exploding-heads.comOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Any recommendations for smoother wheels? Also does larger size help when going down small hills? The asphalt here is pretty crappy so even 95a hard wheels get stuck.

      • squashkin@exploding-heads.comM
        2·
        1 year ago

        well with skate wheels they’re usually small, idk you probably can’t go wrong with a lot of different wheel choices to just do tricks, I always had small (compared to longboards) and I remember having a few sets of rictas, idk mm size or durometer. I would get bigger wheels for skate wheels I think so they would be better for riding ramps maybe and I thought they had more wheel to wear out

        for smoother wheels just for riding around you could get a longboard or longboard wheels, muirskate.com was linked from the longboarding subreddit and seemed to have some nice sets

        • Fisuxcel@exploding-heads.comOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think i’m getting new wheels, the board feels light so it’s easy to carry. I get either ricta clouds or bones rough rides.

        • Fisuxcel@exploding-heads.comOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’d rather get new wheels than new board, though i live in hilly area so longboard could’ve been an option. I just like how small and light the skateboard feels.

      • squashkin@exploding-heads.comM
        1·
        1 year ago

        mini pipes and flatground are pretty cool. rodney mullen vids on endless flatground trick creativity. vert skaters maybe riding minis (like bam margera?)

        idk it was about having fun and I had plenty of fearless energy to jump around with; these days I find a lot of other outlets for emotional expression and creativity that are less risky maybe idk but I did get a ride in today (just a ride though no tricks really)